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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 8 2025
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A brutal coming-of-age in a storm-lashed peninsula where mages bargain for power, necromancers hold the walls, and a nameless boy learns survival is a craft-and a weapon.
Born in a smoke-choked room to a mother who sold him for a handful of coins, Nareth Ruun grows up as indentured labor to gutter magi on the Accavaarian peninsula-hauling coal, scrubbing cauldrons, and learning the quiet arts of not being noticed.
When the Crimson Synod drives Accavaar to war and the Wraith Wastes seal the seas with endless storm, Nareth is pushed to the front as a runner, a blade, and a body that won't break. From the fall of Halvar Pike to the siege of Dormar, he survives arrows, ghost-blue fire that withers flesh, and masters who value him only as inventory-until an ancient archmage and a desperate pact with necromancers knit the living and the dead into one heartbeat on the city walls.
Hollow Birth is a grimdark origin story about endurance, loyalty learned the hard way, and the cost of refusing to die when dying would be easier. For readers of military fantasy, ruinous magic, and sieges where hope isn't a feeling-it's a schedule.
Content Warning: war and gore; child abuse and neglect; sexual assault (off-page); suicidal ideation/attempts; trauma and severe mental illness; pervasive tobacco use.
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